Friedman, Benjamin M. The Moral Consequences of Economic
Growth.
Friedman, Benjamin M. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.
New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2005, 592 pp. $16.95.
The purpose of this interesting offering by Professor Friedman is
to explore . . .
Schrank, W.E., R. Arnason, and R. Hannesson. The Cost of
Fisheries Management.
Schrank, W.E., R. Arnason, and R. Hannesson. The Cost of Fisheries
Management. Hants, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003, 302 pp.
By providing a theoretical and empirical analysis of the cost . . .
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl. From Corn Laws to Free Trade:
Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective.
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl. From Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests,
Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2006, 426 pp., $47.50. IBSN: 0-262-19543-7.
This . . .
Hamilton, Kirk and Giles Atkinson. Wealth, Welfare and
Sustainability: Advances in Measuring Sustainable Development.
Hamilton, Kirk and Giles Atkinson. Wealth, Welfare and
Sustainability: Advances in Measuring Sustainable Development.
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006, 214 pp.
The authors . . .
Ruttan, Vernon W. Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military
Procurement and Technology Development.
Ruttan, Vernon W. Is War Necessary for Economic Growth? Military
Procurement and Technology Development. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006, xi + 219 pp., ISBN 0-19-518804-7.
Sustainable . . .
Property rights and natural resource management incentives: do
transferability and formality matter?(Report)
Ill-defined property rights and consequent natural resource
mismanagement are said to be common in developing countries, where
governments--as de jure providers and enforcers of such . . .
The choice of regulatory instrument when there is uncertainty
about compliance with fisheries regulations.(Report)
Economic overexploitation may result if a fishery is not regulated.
The costs of an individual fisherman will depend not only on his own
catch but, in general, also on the total fish stock . . .
Forecasting resource-allocation decisions under climate
uncertainty: fire suppression with assessment of net benefits of
researc
Public and private sector managers must regularly make
input-allocation decisions with consequences that depend on future
states of nature. Because these states of nature are not known . . .
Economic development prospects of forest-dependent communities:
analyzing trade-offs using a compromise-fuzzy programming
framew
In Canada, federal and provincial governments have historically
promoted economic development in rural regions via the exploitation of
natural resources. Forests played a key role in that . . .
A principal-agent model for evaluating the economic value of a
traceability system: a case study with injection-site lesion cont
The beef supply chain consists of multiple production stages that
transfer cattle and beef downstream using market transactions.
Qualities, quantities, and prices are established through . . .
A bioeconomic model of cattle stocking on rangeland threatened by
invasive plants and nitrogen deposition.(Report)
Climate, biogeochemical cycles, species distribution, and other
natural phenomena are being changed by anthropogenic activities on a
global scale (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). The . . .
The gains from differentiated policies to control stock pollution
when producers are heterogeneous.(Report)
Some major pollution problems including ground and surface water
contamination, soil erosion, buildup of pesticides resistance, and even
climate changes are frequently stock externality problems . . .
Point/nonpoint effluent trading with spatial
heterogeneity.(Report)
There is considerable interest in effluent trading as a means of
meeting water quality goals (Shortle and Horan 2001). In the United
States, effluent trading schemes have been discussed for almost . . .
The effects of exchange rate volatility on agricultural
trade.(Report)
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System in the early 1970s,
when previously fixed exchange rates among major currencies were allowed
to float, researchers have been interested in the . . .
Effects on welfare measures of alternative means of accounting
for preference heterogeneity in recreational demand
models.(Repor
For many years, the assumption that preferences are homogenous
dominated revealed preference analysis of the demand for non-market
goods albeit with some notable exceptions such as Morey (1981) . . .
Utility in willingness to pay space: a tool to address
confounding random scale effects in destination choice to the
Alps.(Repor
Nonmarket values of qualitative changes in sites for outdoor
recreation are often investigated by estimating random utility models
(RUMs) of site selection (Bockstael, Hanemann, and Kling 1987; . . .
Indifference pricing of weather derivatives.(Report)
Weather is undeniably one of the most important sources of risk in
agriculture, and it seems that fluctuations of temperature and
precipitation have even increased in the last decade due to . . .
Spatial-temporal model of insect growth, diffusion and derivative
pricing.(Report)
Derivative securities are used for risk management purposes in a
number of industries. Derivatives, as they are generically called, are
financial instruments that assume a value based on an . . .
Spatio-temporal modeling of agricultural yield data with an
application to pricing crop insurance contracts.(Report)
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Historically, crop insurance in Brazil has been offered by the
government at both the federal and state levels. In spite of the
government's efforts, the experience with crop insurance . . .
What explains the increased utilization of Powder River Basin
coal in electric power generation?(Report)
Since the inception of the Clean Air Act in 1970, S[O.sub.2]
emissions in the United States declined by 50% at less than 10% of the
originally estimated cost (Kerr 1998). Much of this reduction . . .
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